If you were considering the iPhone and iPod touch to be on the same footing given their processing speeds, it may be time to believe otherwise. With the video game features added to the two are testing the two devices to the limits, making it ever so obvious that the two have processing speed differentials. If you are an iPhone carrier, then knowing that the second-generation iPod touch is faster than your possession, maybe a hard-to-gulp proposition for you. We know processing speed isn’t the only way to measure performance, but then it is probably the best way out to do it anyhow. Apple has been marketing their iPod touch as a gaming device (beyond the touch’s music and video abilities), and keeping the same in mind, the new iPod touch’s ARM-based processor is gigged up to 532MHz (with further potential to raise it to 620MHz), while the iPhone 3G’s processor runs at 412MHz only.
TouchArcade via: CNET
